Comments on: Florida Gets a New Senatorhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/
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By: Coline Georgehttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-1575933
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:58:05 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/#comment-1575933In 1965 the Medicare bill didn’t create near as much opposition as Obama’s bill because it was blessed by the insurance companies. They didn’t want to insure those over 65 because they cost money. They wanted taxpayers to take on that burden–which we did so successfully that it was expanded to cover America’s disabled. Imagine –if Medicare was expanded to cover the healthy, we could have the best medical care in the world for all Americans at far less than it is costing taxpayers today.
]]>By: Calliehttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-1560985
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:16:39 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/#comment-1560985He’s only keeping the seat warm for the governor!!!
]]>By: Steve Bolgerhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-1558011
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:15:18 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/#comment-1558011Observe that Massachusetts holds special elections rather than letting an appointee fill out the whole term. There is no equal protection of the law in the fractured US.
]]>By: Johnhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-1557775
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:17:20 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/#comment-1557775And all former House member Mark Foley got was a radio show.
]]>By: Steve Hunterhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-1557709
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:06:11 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/#comment-1557709Congratulations to Senator LeMieux. Let us hope that he brings some of that enthusiasm to the Senate and doesn’t just sit on his hands and say “No”.
]]>By: HLChttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-1557629
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:01:02 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/florida-gets-new-senator/#comment-1557629Marco Rubio…criticized the selection when it was announced last month: “…but that doesn’t make him the right choice to represent Florida in the Senate.”

Well, of course, not. The right choice (she writes tongue in cheek) would have been a Democrat.